- Source: List of inventions named after people
This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whomever else it is named after). For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies.
The list
= A to F
=Abney level – William de Wiveleslie Abney
Aldis lamp – Arthur Cyril Webb Aldis
Aldrin – Kurt Alder
Alexanderson alternator – Ernst Alexanderson
Algorithm – Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Anderson shelter – John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
Anderton Shearer Loader – James Anderton
Appertization – Nicolas Appert
Archimedes' screw – Archimedes
Argand lamp – Aimé Argand
Armstrong breech-loading gun – William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
Armstrong's acid – Henry Edward Armstrong
Austenite – William Chandler Roberts-Austen
Auston switch – David H. Auston
Avtomat Kalashnikova (AK-47) – Mikhail Kalashnikov
Bailey bridge – Donald Bailey
Bakelite – Leo Baekeland
Barker code – Ronald Hugh Barker
Barlow lens – Barlow's wheel – Peter Barlow
Bath Oliver – William Oliver
Beaufort scale – Sir Francis Beaufort
Beecham's Pills – Thomas Beecham
Belisha beacon – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha
Benedict's reagent – Stanley Rossiter Benedict
Benson raft – Simon Benson
Bessemer converter – Henry Bessemer
Billinghurst Requa Battery – William Billinghurst and Josephus Requa
Birch gun – Noel Birch
Bird's Custard – Alfred Bird
Biro – László Bíró* Blacker Bombard – Stewart Blacker
Bloomers – Amelia Bloomer
Botts' dots – Elbert Dysart Botts
Bourdon gauge – Eugène Bourdon
Bowden cable – Ernest Monnington Bowden
Bowie knife – James Bowie
Bowler hat – Thomas and William Bowler
Bradshaw's Railway Guide – George Bradshaw
Braille – Louis Braille
Bramah Press – Joseph Bramah
Brannock device – Charles F. Brannock
Brennan torpedo – Louis Brennan
Brougham – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle – John Browning
Büchner funnel, Büchner flask – Ernst Büchner
Bunsen burner – Robert Bunsen
Burr Arch Truss – Theodore Burr
Callanetics – Callan Pinckney
Cardigan – James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
Carnot cycle, Carnot heat engine – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Cassegrain telescope – Laurent Cassegrain
Catherine Wheel – Catherine of Alexandria
Chippendale chair, Chippendale furniture – Thomas Chippendale
Clerihew – Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Coade stone – Eleanor Coade
Codd-neck bottle – Hiram Codd
Coddington magnifier – Henry Coddington
Colt revolver – Samuel Colt
Coffey still – Aeneas Coffey
Congreve rocket – Sir William Congreve, 1st Baronet
Crompton's mule – Samuel Crompton
Crookes tube – William Crookes
Cunningham – Briggs Cunningham
Daguerreotype – Louis Daguerre
Dalén light – Gustaf Dalén
Daly detector – Norman Richard Daly
Daniell cell – John Frederic Daniell
Davenport desk – Captain John Davenport
Davis Gun – Cleland Davis
Davy lamp – Humphry Davy
Derrick – Thomas Derrick
Derringer – Henry Deringer
Dewar flask – James Dewar
Diesel engine, diesel fuel – Rudolf Diesel
Dimroth condenser – Otto Dimroth
Divers's solution – Edward Divers
Dr. Martens – Klaus Märtens
Dolby noise-reduction system – Ray Dolby
Doppler radar – Christian Doppler
Draisine – Karl Drais
Edison effect (Thermionic emission) – Thomas Edison
Edison screw – Thomas Edison
Ehrlich's reagent – Paul Ehrlich
Éolienne Bollée – Ernest Sylvain Bollée
Ericsson engine – John Ericsson
Erlenmeyer flask – Emil Erlenmeyer
Euclidean geometry – Euclid
Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife – William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes
Faraday cage – Michael Faraday
Farrimond friction hitch – Barry Farrimond
Ferris wheel – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
Flinders bar – Matthew Flinders
Foley catheter – Frederic Foley
Foucault pendulum – Léon Foucault
Francis turbine – James B. Francis
Franklin stove – Benjamin Franklin
French drain - Henry F. French
Fresnel lens – Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Friedrichs condenser – Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs
Frost Airship Glider – William Frost
= G to M
=Galil – Yisrael Galil
Gallup Poll – George Gallup
Galvanometer, galvanic cell – Luigi Galvani
Garand – John Garand
Gatling gun – Richard Jordan Gatling
Gatso cameras – Maus Gatsonides
Geiger counter – Hans Geiger
Geiger–Müller tube – Hans Geiger and Walther Müller
George Foreman Grill – George Foreman
Gillette safety razor – King Camp Gillette
Gladstone bag – William Ewart Gladstone
Glauber's salt – Johann Rudolf Glauber
Gore-Tex – Bill Gore
Graham condenser – Thomas D. Graham
Graham cracker – Rev Sylvester Graham
Gramme dynamo – Zénobe Gramme
Gregorian telescope – James Gregory
Guillotine – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
Gurney Stove – Goldsworthy Gurney
Halkett boat – Peter Halkett
Hallidie ropeway – Andrew Smith Hallidie
Halligan bar – Hugh Halligan
Hammond organ – Laurens Hammond
Heimlich Maneuver – Henry Heimlich
Hele-Shaw clutch – Henry Selby Hele-Shaw
Henry rifle – Benjamin Tyler Henry
Higgins boat – Andrew Higgins
Hobbs Meter – John Weston Hobbs
Holter Monitor – Norman Holter
Hoover – William Henry Hoover
Horlicks – James and William Horlick
Horsley–Clarke apparatus – Victor Horsley and Robert H. Clarke
Horstmann suspension – Sidney Horstmann
Howell torpedo – John Adams Howell
Humphrey pump – H. A. Humphrey
Hutchinson Patent Stopper – Charles G. Hutchinson
Inglis Bridge – Charles Inglis
Jacuzzi – Candido Jacuzzi
Jacquard loom – Joseph Marie Jacquard
Josephson junction – Brian David Josephson
Kalashnikov – Mikhail Kalashnikov
Kaplan turbine – Viktor Kaplan
Kay's flying shuttle – John Kay
Kégresse track – Adolphe Kégresse
Kelvin bridge – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Ketchum Grenade – William F. Ketchum
Kilner jar – John Kilner
Kipp's apparatus – Petrus Jacobus Kipp
Krarup cable – Carl Emil Krarup
Land Camera – Edwin H. Land
Langmuir probe – Irving Langmuir
Leigh light – Humphrey de Verd Leigh
Leotard – Jules Léotard
Leslie speaker – Donald Leslie
Lewis gun – Isaac Newton Lewis
Littlejohn adaptor – František Janeček
Loganberry – James Harvey Logan
Lyot filter, Lyot stop and Lyot depolarizer – Bernard Lyot
Macadam, tarmac – John Loudon McAdam
Machmeter – Ernst Mach
Mackintosh – Charles Macintosh
Mae West – Mae West
Mallet's Mortar – Robert Mallet
Manby Mortar – George William Manby
Mansard roof – François Mansart
Marconi rig – Guglielmo Marconi
Mason jar – John Landis Mason
Masonite - William H. Mason
Mausoleum – Mausolus
Maxim gun – Hiram Stevens Maxim
McCormick reaper – Cyrus McCormick
Melba toast, Peach Melba, Melba sauce – Nellie Melba
Melvillade – Robert Melville
Mercator projection – Gerardus Mercator
Mercerised cotton – John Mercer
Michelson interferometer – Albert Abraham Michelson
Mills bomb – William Mills
Minié ball, Minié rifle – Claude-Étienne Minié
Molotov cocktail – Vyacheslav Molotov
Momsen Lung, Charles B. Momsen
Moog synthesizer – Robert Moog
Morse code – Samuel Morse
Muntz metal – George Frederic Muntz
Murphy bed – William Lawrence Murphy
= N to S
=Napier's bones – John Napier
Newcomen steam engine – Thomas Newcomen
Newtonian telescope – Isaac Newton
Newton's Cradle – Isaac Newton
Nissen hut – Peter Norman Nissen
Nordenfelt gun – Thorsten Nordenfelt
Northrop Loom – James Henry Northrop
Odhner Arithmometer – Willgodt Theophil Odhner
Odón device – Jorge Odón
Ormerod link – Edward Ormerod
Ostwald viscometer – Wilhelm Ostwald
Owen submachine gun – Evelyn Owen
Parkesine – Alexander Parkes
Pasteurization – Louis Pasteur
Patchett gun – George William Patchett
Pavlova – Anna Pavlova
Payne's grey – William Payne
Peavey – Joseph Peavey
Pelton turbine – Lester Allan Pelton
Penning trap – Frans Michel Penning
Petri dish – Julius Richard Petri
Phillips screw – Henry F. Phillips
Pilates – Joseph Pilates
Pimm's – James Pimm
Pinchbeck – Christopher Pinchbeck
Pintsch gas – Julius Pintsch
Pitman shorthand – Isaac Pitman
Pitot tube – Henri Pitot
Plimsoll line – Samuel Plimsoll
Prince Rupert's Drop – Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Pulaski – Ed Pulaski
Pupin coil – Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
Puretic power block – Mario Puratić
Prusik – Karl Prusik
Raglan sleeve – Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
Raman spectroscopy – C. V. Raman
Rawlplug – John Joseph Rawlings
Richter magnitude scale – Charles Francis Richter
Ripley machine gun – Ezra Ripley
Rorschach test – Hermann Rorschach
Rozière balloon – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
Rubik's Cube – Ernő Rubik
Rumford fireplace – Benjamin Thompson
Salk vaccine – Jonas Salk
Salter's duck – Stephen Salter
Sam Browne belt – Sam Browne
Sandwich – Earl of Sandwich
Savery engine – Thomas Savery
Saxophone – Adolphe Sax
Scavenger's daughter – Leonard Skeffington (or Skevington)
Scheele's Green – Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Schick test – Béla Schick
Shrapnel shell – Henry Shrapnel
Sousaphone – John Philip Sousa
Southern blot – Edwin Southern
Soyer stove – Alexis Soyer
Spragg Bag – Terry Spragg
Sprengel explosives, Sprengel Pump – Hermann Sprengel
Stabinger viscometer – Hans Stabinger
Stanhope – Henry FitzRoy Stanhope
Stark spectroscopy – Johannes Stark
Stelzer engine – Frank Stelzer
Stephenson's Rocket - Robert Stephenson
Sten – Reginald V. Shepherd, Harold Turpin, Enfield
Stetson – John Batterson Stetson
Stiefografie – Helmut Stief
Stillson wrench – Daniel Chapman Stillson
Stirling engine – Rev. Robert Stirling
Stockbridge damper – George H. Stockbridge
Stokes mortar – Wilfred Stokes
Strowger switch – Almon Brown Strowger
Swallow float – John C. Swallow
= T to Z
=Taj Mahal - Mumtaz Mahal
Tesla coil, Tesla turbine – Nikola Tesla
Theremin – Léon Theremin
Thompson submachine gun – John T. Thompson
Tobin tax — James Tobin
Tupperware – Earl Silas Tupper
Ubbelohde viscometer – Leo Ubbelohde
Uzi – Uziel Gal
Venn diagram – John Venn
Vernier scale – Pierre Vernier
Very pistol, Very flare – Edward Wilson Very
Vigreux column – Henri Vigreux
Voltaic pile – Alessandro Volta
Wagner tuba – Richard Wagner
Wankel engine – Felix Wankel
Wardian case – Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward
Waterhouse stop – John Waterhouse
Watt's linkage & Watt steam engine – James Watt
Wedgwood porcelain – Wedgwood family
Welin breech block – Axel Welin
Wellington boot – Duke of Wellington
Wells turbine – Alan Arthur Wells
Westinghouse air brake – George Westinghouse
Weston cell – Edward Weston
Wheatstone bridge – Charles Wheatstone
Whitehead Torpedo – Robert Whitehead
Whitworth thread – Joseph Whitworth
Wiegand wire – John R. Wiegand
Wilhelmy plate – Ludwig Wilhelmy
Wilson chamber – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Winchester rifle – Oliver Winchester
Windsor knot – Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Winogradsky column – Sergei Winogradsky
Wollaston landscape lens – William Hyde Wollaston
Wollaston wire – William Hyde Wollaston
Woodruff key – W.N. Woodruff
Wood's glass – Robert W. Wood
Yablochkov candle – Pavel Yablochkov
Yale lock – Linus Yale, Jr.
Zamboni – Frank Zamboni
Zamboni pile – Giuseppe Zamboni
Zeppelin – Ferdinand von Zeppelin
See also
List of inventors
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
List of inventions named after places
Timeline of historic inventions
List of scientists
Lists of etymologies
Scientific phenomena named after people
List of named inorganic compounds
References
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